Best Gun Violence Poems

Gun Violence A National Disgrace

Gun violence has become a national disgrace; 
It could be here, there and all over the place,
Plant seed,
To impede,
And we must come to gripes with and will face.

Jim Horn...

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See in your mind, imagine-  no senseless gun death; 
                  and a world without prejudice;
        visualize peace on every city...

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Gun violence
Yet another - 
Madness!
When will it end?
Homicide rates are
Through the roof
And it
Continues
To rise
Mass shootings
Schools shot up - 
Now a new normal
Something needs to be done...
Now!
It's out of control!


Date written and posted: 05/08/2019...

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GUN VIOLENCE BLUES - corrected

They built a gun-violence memorial 
in a god-forsaken corner of my 
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics, 
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two, 
and some interested parties with a mission 
and a grant, a willing grad student,...

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How many times must we amend
The gruesome news of death again?
What venue will Fate next abase, 
some hapless, unsuspecting place?
Such acts still shake us to the core -
These senseless slaughters some ignore.
We're told that guns bought "legally"
Are nothing to condemn, you see.
Just guiltless children lying...

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In the shadows cast by a merciless sun,
The echoes of sorrow, this battle not won.
A symphony shattered, silenced by strife,
Lives torn asunder, cut short by the gun.

A tragic ballet of souls lost too soon,
The world weeps for lives that ended too soon.
Gone are the dreams,...

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bullets fly kids cry
only lucky one’s survive 
god speed arch angels...

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Gun Violence 
(Verse1)
Everyday somewhere 
Someone life is not spared 
No longer sitting in silence 
Let's talk about gun Violence
Everyday a detective is on their way 
To visit a family 
To tell them horrible news 
Family feeling lost and confused 
How can you take something you...

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“No notes,” the teacher said to us,
"and there's nothing you're allowed to discuss.
This is a pop quiz,
to write an analysis
of what to do when someone with a gun approaches our bus."...

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The Killing Fields”
Stepping across these bodies
Makes me ill

Pools of blood stitched
In the soles of my shoes       

Body parts dripping from 
Walls where bullets passed

She went to school that day
Skipping and laughing along the way

Gunfire from hell
Unleashed in a fury...

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(This piece is dedicated to those innocent youths gunned down inside institutes of learning, by guns improperly regulated, and utilized by cold, heartless entities who committed these crimes without an iota of guilt or remorse. It is also a bold criticism to those lawmakers who...

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I'm the son of a gun.

You can call me the son of Sam.

I kill, Bang, bang, you're dead..

I kill. therefore I am.



I remember  my own sweet  home,

where I never suffered loss,

and the holy rifle on the wall

slung just beneath the Cross.



No earthly power...

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In the confusion 
so confounding, A Confliction, everyone’s conviction - to voice, to reason,

and 

nothing 

changes.


A man was murdered today in the streets,
Tomorrow, next week, 
next month a shooting-

a school, a grocery shop, holiday parade.

Why is it that we must die for your injustice? 
You...

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Welcome to our generation,
We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation,
Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation,
And fear their schools are a gunned down station.

When they watch the news near and far,
The horrors they witness leave a scar.
When they’re in school, their fears on par,
They remember...

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This was one of the first poems I wrote when new at Poetry Soup.com five years ago and I received a wonderful welcome from the lovely poetess Connie Marcum Wong. 
White daisy's in a wicker basket
graced the tiny metal casket
where his lifeless body now lay..
Family...

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